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a4toeinubine wednesday july i iaa i beauty dear jim -c- r i wish to make comment with regard to a tribune editorial in the issue of june 16 under the heading area site a dis- grace it deals with the appearance of v theclaremont conservation area contrary to your opinion i see this site vasa beautiful i wilderness park there one can walk along miles of nature trails among trees shrubs ferns and flowers that bring pleasure to hundreds of people each year j- the songs of birds such as woodthnish cardinals crested flycatchers pileated woodpeckers and blue jays can be heard as one walks along the banks of duffins creek where the sparkling water is pure enough to drink on the western slopes miles of shrubs such as caragana multiflora rose lilac and others add their sweet perfume to the valleys in the fall the beauty of the woods in autumn colors cannot be equalled one tree a butternut hickory over 100 feet high and measuring almost eight feet in circumference is- in itself worth a visit true there may not be many barnyard ducks on the pond but one can count up to 100 canada geese there in the fall whats wrong with long grass for years acres and acres were mowed each week at considerable cost to the tax- payer when funds were cut off an excel- lent step was taken trees were planted over most of the open areas wildlife is gradually coming back once more marsh hawks can be seen soaring over the fields and ground- nesting songbirds previously disturbed by mowing machines can now safely build their nests in the grass i think the metro toronto and region cconservation authority should be com- mended for doing the best they can under the circumstances although group picnics are no longer held there the areais free and open to fishermen naturalistsphotographers or anyone seeking a quiet place to have lunch to someone like myself who has co- vered almost every square rod of the 400 acres its difficult to understand why it should be described as an eyesore lets keep the area open for those who love it not close it as your editorial sug- gested sincerely edgerton pegg rr 2 claremont that was the week that was andrew p cook advertising manager i established 1888 james thomas barry wwallace editorinchief publisher editorial dept jim holt jim irving display advertising dept rod spicef bryan armstrong classified advertisingcirculation joan marshman office manager doreen deacon business office eileen glover nation al advertising representative dan poyntz 363 1051 published every wednesday at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 25 sbuscriptions 1300 per year in canada 3500 elsewhere member of canadian community newspapers associationontario weekly newspapers association ontario press council and suburban newspapers of america second classmail registration number 0896 the stouflville tribune is one of the metroland printing publishing ltd group of suburban newspapers which includes the acton free press aiaxwhitbypickenna news advertiser aurora bannernewmarket era aurora bannernewmarket era weekend edition the bolton enterprise bramp ton guardian the burlington postjhe burlmton weekend post theetobicoke advertiserguardian the georgetown independent markhamthornhiii economist and sun the milton champion the mississauga news- the mississauga news weekend edition the north york mirror oakville beaver oakville friday beaver oshawa this week oshawa this weekend the richmond hillthornhill bberal the scarborough mirror the woodbndge vaughan news 0 v i v st k a busy weekend but fun 6402100 canada weekend eynsycjiifgorjanizer deserves our thanks what a weekend im bushed i mean really beat its late sunday afternoon im trying to whip off a column measure up a multitude of negatives write a couple of editorials drive to markham for the weekly cartoon fit stories into three waiting pages grab a mouthful of supper and get down to the park for the open- air service all in twohours cant be done youre right so ill be burn ing the midnight oil again v but im not complaining not really its been the finest canada week ever thanks to the humungus thats geds word not mine effort put forward by chairman ged stonehouse and all his willing workers this year for a change even the weatherman cooperated so why am i so mentally and physically in capacitated just trying to cover each and ev ery event it was next to impossibleoh sure i was there in body and spirit too but to provide each with the editorial and pictorial space it deserves isout of the question theres just not sufficient space without a word of exaggeration i could fill most of this weeks tribune with stories and pictures on one of several major events alone not to speak of all the rest take the canada queen pageant for example or the antique fire truck parade the celebrity auction the slopitchball tournament the crazy olym pics and the aforementioned worship service all worthy of concentrated coverage coverage id like to provide but cant for both jim holt and myselfit becomes a bit of ah embarrassment on occasions we take pictures of individuals and groups know- ing full well theyll never be published howev er rather than say no we go through the motions realizing that sooner or later well have to face the music when no photos appear usually the phones start ringing wednes days and yes theylhbe ringing longer and louder this wednesday for there were picture possibilities galore during this our greatest of all canada week celebrations yes we could fill a 60page paper rather than sixteen thats what a happening of such magnitude truly deserves regardless it was fun trying i loved every minute of it so did the participants i never saw a crowd there were thousands so jubi lant so buoyant so spirited none of the com plaining so common to canadians by jim thomas what did i enjoy most thats an unfair question however now that ive put myself on the spot ill attempt an honest answer the celebrity auction for two reasons first i like auction sales and second i came up with the- best bargain of the night a framed photo of the fathers of confederation donatedtothe cause by this ridings member of parlia ment sinclair stevens the purchase price a mere fifteen dollars ill have him autograph it the next time he happens bytkeh- when our highlyrespected mp becomesour countrys next prime minister the value will soarout of sight but the picture will never be sold two single incidents impressed me greatly at the celebrity sale auctioneer dan barkey outbid ten year old mark spoorenberg for an autographed blue jays baseball then gave it to him as a gift proud moment no 2 was the resonant singing of o canada accompanied by our own town band at the july 1 ceremony on main street on that occasion at least we seemed proud- to be canadians may some semblance of national pride extend through fiftytwo weeks rather than only one what a weekendlike nothing this town has seen since its centennial in 77 success of the fourday program in addition to the weather is due to the enthusiasm dis- played by a single individual ged stonehouse it was he who put it all together and saw it through to asuccessful conclusion certainly he had help some excellent help but it was he who engineered the event from beginning toend whitchurchstouffville owes him a vote of thanks previously there had been disappointments when committee members failed to respond and attractions failed to show- but not this yeareverything went together like clock work our greatest fear was that due to july 1 coming on a thursday many would take off wednesday and not return until sunday un doubtedly some did but thousands didnt we havent seen so many people in the park in years although the theme was canada a good deal of promotional spade work was done with re- spect to a proposed recreation centre and the response was positive it was a great weekend for our town a prop elling force that will lead to even greater co operation in 83 window oh wildlife- must preserve our forests by art briggsjude iritown walk back in 1980 a terry fox day was held in whitchurchstouffville raising close to 20000v icrv if wy r- as with canada weekend ged stonehouse was the driving force behind thte event last year there was nothing organized as a memorial to this brave young canadian town- sfolk wishing to participate travelled to new- market or uxbridge this wont happen again at least not in sl the stouffville branch of the canadian can cer society is sponsoring a walkathon sun day- sept 19 all proceeds will go directly to the terry foxfund we anticipate hundreds of entries residents appear eager for this type of event the cause is certainly right pledge sheets will be available shortly this is a story about space material and time its not a pleasant tale neither is is a hopeless account the hard facts relate to our way of life and the startling realization that sometime soon were going to have to change our ways and each new year that we fail to recognize these writings on the wall brings the letters on that proverbial branding iron closer to touching each one of us individually so the space part of this story has to do with the area in which we live and the vast tracts of land to the north that furnish nearly one job in ten for every canadian its not hard to notice the changing scene in our own community where almost overnight farms become shopping plazas and houses spring up in nearby fields like meadow mushrooms after a soft rain new highways bulldoze their way across the countryside and landfill dump sites gobble up our ravines at an alarming rate yet urban spread new housing and highways are all part of our development 3s a country 2nd even controlled dump sites though undesirable are at present a necessi ty for want of a better way not so noticeable to us however is the changing scene in our ontario northland this vast space of landscape you view as you travel the northern highwayscountless miles of forest greenery a seemingly ihexhaustable source of supply for the paper industries that form the lifeblood of many a nortern commun ity unfortunately the source of supply is not inexhaustable and the open spaces that arc left will not in most cases benefit the existing mills in our time this then is the material part of our story trees conifers like black spruce and jack pine mainly but deciduous kinds such as birch popular and hardwoods too are disappearing at an escalating rate too fast for our own good and that of the forest industry its unbeliev able to think that canadas largest export com modity forest products could in the next de cade be strangled yet maybe its not too hard to fathom when we realize that some large pulp mills chew up 12000 trees a day add to that the sobering fact the revelation that in a given year forest fires and insect pests take ten times this amount and the present programs of reforestation even when coupled with natu ral regeneration will only provide about half of this annual harvest unless we change our ways we arc all going to be in dire need of building and wood fibre material by the turn of the century century score decade they are all measurements of time and time is the un known factor the final chapter in this truelife tale but while tfme may be short in reple nishing the woodlands by conventional methods the development of faster growing and disease resistant trees could help breach the gap one program too that would aid us more in our aid in our race against time is greater recycling everyone knows that this method of reusing much of our dwindling supply of forest fibre is not new but it is becoming a priority item in manyofthe larger paper mills already the ontario paper company in thor- old has launched a major recovery project that will utilize one hundred thousand tons of newspapers annually thats a lot of material enough in fact to fill the inside space of a 15storey building the size of a football field every year that amount of fiberous material also equals that produced by cutting ten square miles of forest and thats space too that wouldnt be used up in landfill disposal sites truly we are fast approaching the cros- sroads of the forest as we know it today to prevail we must change our past performance in the woodlands and accept the fact at home that we each have a responsibility to conserve every bit of forest fibre we can the stakes in our forest industry are high butif we are not lmbre careful in our handling of this most im- portant resource all too soon theyll be made outof plastic